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Organize a Booth and Keep Your Sanity

November 6, 09 //
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After having a quick chat with Kévin Ottens on IRC we agreed that it would be useful to write up a small how-to explaining the Art of Booth Organization™ as a follow up on the how-to for sprints I posted earlier. He has been poking me about it repeatedly, so voilà, Monsieur, finalement, c’est fait.

While writing down all those steps I realized that organizing a booth is more complex than I thought. Chances are high that I have forgotten something more or less important. The comment section is yours!

KDE gives you light by funadium on Flickr

KDE gives you light by funadium on Flickr

Let’s say you come across an interesting event in your area or elsewhere and you think KDE should be present and have a stand in whatever shape and size. How do you proceed?

Register a booth

This is obviously the first step. Usually, the call for projects closes several weeks before the event takes place. As soon as it is open and you have decided that you’d like to be there send an email to the kde-promo list. Ask if anybody has already registered a booth and/or would be interested to organize one together with yourself.

Go to kde.org and copy and paste the usual about blurb on the front page for the registration or look for one of the translated versions. It keeps things consistent and saves you a lot of thinking. (weiterlesen…)

Home At Last

Juli 13, 09 //
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Three weeks of travel are finally over. I enjoyed most of it but it took it’s toll. One of the reasons I didn’t feel the summit was as successful for me personally than it could have been.

During the four days in Berlin I spent mostly in the halls of LinuxTag, I had the energy and ease to walk around and talk to people although the preparation of the whole event had taken quite some effort from my side. Luckily, all went smoothly, including our Friends of Qt dinner. It was unfortunate that it collided with the Social Event the LinuxTag organized, but I could no longer wait for the date at one point and had to fix the restaurant. (weiterlesen…)

Call for Help

Juni 17, 09 //
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Die Stadtkirche Winterthur (Schweiz) von Nordo...
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1.5 years ago, Franz was in the same position as I am now: he needed a helping hand. And unfortunately it’s the same event again.

There is an OpenExpo in Winterthur coming up on 23rd and 24th September and so far noone has stepped up to organize it. These expos are nice events (incl. catering) and stunningly well organized by /ch/open – there is really not much to do. So it’s the perfect opportunity for beginners.

If you don’t have any plans for those days and would like to dip your feet into booth organization, drop us a line at kde-promo at kde dot org. I can send you last year’s material for registering the booth and am happy to help out if you run into questions.

Deadline for registering the KDE booth is 19th June.

Update, 19th June: Myriam was so kind to register the booth in time. She will need some help though. You can still raise your hand and get involved. :)

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Organize a Sprint and Keep Your Sanity

Juni 11, 09 //
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I replied to an email today explaining my usual formula for organizing a developer sprint. While typing I thought I might as well blog about it so others can clone it too. Please, comment if you think I forgot something.

On the Edge by Wendy on flickr

On the Edge by Wendy on flickr

Set a Date

First figure out which weekend will fit most possible attendees. Propose no more than three different ones in the beginning or you will never come to an agreement. The last one should be about eight weeks away for a normal amount of organization, like finding accomodation and booking trips.

To make your life easier while coming to an agreement on the date, use a tool like Doodle or set up a simple table on a wiki. And set a deadline. (weiterlesen…)

KOffice Sprint, Day 2

Juni 7, 09 //
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After an extremely productive and rather well planned Saturday, we kept Sunday for discussions in small groups. The Krita developers moved to the sofas and helped Lukas to clarify the first steps of his SoC project. After a while the moved on to different topics and I read through pages of the Wordpress documentation to find solutions to open questions regarding the website. I didn’t get half as much done as I wanted – not quite surprisingly – but I fixed some minor annoyances and talked to Danimo who popped by eventually how to split up both the existing and hopefully soon new created content between main page, wiki, user- and techbase.

During the whole weekend I sensed positive vibes coming from the core developers who were relieved to have finally released. For me, this is the biggest improvement compared to the sprint we had last November. The announcement of Jos van den Oever as first full time developer working on KOffice (who brought great drops!) and the rather high amount of completely new faces surely added to the good mood.

Thanks go to Cyrille for his excellent release management that lead to 2.0 and agenda planning for the sprint, to Thomas for the lovley stickers and postcards, to KDAB who were kind enough to host us at their office and provide us with enough coffee and to the KDE e.V. for sponsoring the whole event. And of course, to everybody who came to Berlin to contribute, discuss and learn.

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